近一二十年来,联合国开发署一直在监测世界人口的发展情况,并在2000年第4期《发展与合作》(D+C)杂志上公布了如下事实: 1.全世界1/3的人每天生活费不足两美元。 2.在工业化国家,1亿多人生活在贫困线以下;500多万人无家可归,3700万人失业。 3.在东欧和前苏联地区,人们的生活水平急剧下降;在这些国家有1.2亿人生活在贫困线以下(“贫困 For nearly a decade or so, the United Nations Development Program has been monitoring the development of the world’s population and has published the following facts in D + C Magazine No. 4 of 2000: 1. 1/3 of the world’s People living on less than two dollars a day. 2. In industrialized countries, more than 100 million people live below the poverty line; more than 5 million are homeless and 37 million are unemployed. 3. In Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the standard of living of people has dropped dramatically; in these countries 120 million people live below the poverty line ("poverty